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"Well, my father," continued the young girl, "these three rushed down the stairs into the cabin, shortly before the steamer thumped against the side of our ship, when I thought we were all going down to the bottom of the sea." "Yes, my child," said the colonel encouragingly, "go on and tell us what happened next."
When I told of Lute's forgetfulness in the matter of gasolene the lightkeeper thumped the table. "There, by godfreys!" he exclaimed. "I could see it comin'! That feller's for all the world like a cook I had once aboard the Ezry H. Jones. That cook was the biggest numskull that ever drawed the breath of life. Always forgettin' somethin', he was, and always at the most inconvenient time.
"Be silent, Rodney, and let the captain speak." Rodd gave himself a snatch and clenched his fists. "Well, sir, to make a long story short, the Count gammoned you into keeping company with him, and brought you here here, of all places in the world here, to Saint Helena," and he thumped the chart just where the island was marked.
The expression of the chief's face became ghastly. His eyes widened until they showed rings of white; his nostrils expanded. With a fierce yell, he thumped his scrawny chest until it boomed like an Indian drum. Then he gave a series of guttural orders to his followers. Kid Wolf, who knew the Apache tongue, listened and understood. His sunburned face paled a bit, but his eyes remained steady.
Then, after a backward glance, fell into a quick walk that brought him past the Brill House and to Schroeder's drug store corner. There was his crowd Spider, and Red, and Bing, and Casey. They took him literally unto their breasts. They thumped him on the back. They bestowed on him the low epithets with which they expressed admiration.
When this was accomplished, and MacFee had secured the smuggler's pistols, he said again, "March, Lambton." Lambton marched through the moonlit night towards the troop of men who had come to set up the flag of order in the plains and hills, and as he went his keen ear heard his own mules galloping away down towards the Barfleur Coulee. His heart thumped in his breast.
"I do hope I shall go to college or else have a husband who belongs to a lot of " "Silence!" thumped Patricia. Elinor, who had been quietly going on with her breakfast, laid down her fork. "Read it for yourselves," she smiled, tossing the sheet across the table. "My time's about up. It's criticism morning in the portrait class, and I want to get a lot more done before Mr. Benton comes."
And one day a lorry, piled high with boxes, rolled and thumped down the street, and halted by René. "Rather think we are lost," explained the driver, grinning sheepishly at René. There were four boys in khaki on the truck, and not a word of French among them. Sara Lee, who rolled her own bandages now, heard the speech and came out. "Good gracious!" she said, and gave an alarmed glance at the sky.
It seemed that she had taken on new qualities, a new and an ethereal grace. At the very thought even of his technical possession of this smiling girl who came forward to greet him, his heart thumped so loudly that he felt she must hear it. She was pale, and there were dark shadows under her eyes, but the hand that gripped his was firm and warm and living. "I have to thank you for much, Mr.
"If dey doesn't do so, den I dies mit hunger," was the despairing exclamation of Otto, who forgot that only a few hours had passed since he had partaken liberally of food. "I never felt so hungry as I feels now, and now I'm growing worser " Something thumped against the side of the speaker's head with such force that his hat fell off.
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